Nocturne - the Splendour Falls on Castle Walls
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings - Les Illuminations - Nocturne
Hymn - Queen and Huntress Chaste and Fair
Sonnet - O Soft Embalmer of the Still Midnight
I. On a poet's lips I slept
Denis Blyth, Gervase de Peyer, William Waterhouse, Roger Lord, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, Osian Ellis, Barry Tuckwell, Alexander Murray
II. Below the thunders of the upper deep
Gervase de Peyer, Roger Lord, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, William Waterhouse, Barry Tuckwell, Osian Ellis, Denis Blyth, Alexander Murray
III. Encintured with a twine of leaves
Gervase de Peyer, Osian Ellis, Roger Lord, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, Alexander Murray, Denis Blyth, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra
IV. Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting
Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, William Waterhouse, Osian Ellis, Alexander Murray, Roger Lord, Barry Tuckwell, Gervase de Peyer, Denis Blyth
V. But that night when on my bed I lay
Osian Ellis, Barry Tuckwell, Roger Lord, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Murray, Denis Blyth, William Waterhouse, Gervase de Peyer
VI. She sleeps on soft, last breaths
Osian Ellis, Alexander Murray, William Waterhouse, Gervase de Peyer, Barry Tuckwell, Roger Lord, Denis Blyth, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra
VII. What is more gentle than a wind in summer?
William Waterhouse, Osian Ellis, Denis Blyth, Alexander Murray, Barry Tuckwell, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, Gervase de Peyer, Roger Lord
VIII. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
Osian Ellis, Gervase de Peyer, Roger Lord, William Waterhouse, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Murray, Denis Blyth, Barry Tuckwell
Production
- Erik SmithProducer
- John CulshawProducer
- James WalkerProducer
- Gordon ParryRecording Engineer
- John CulshawRecording Engineer
- Kenneth WilkinsonRecording Engineer
- Alan ReeveBalance Engineer